Effectiveness Trial for Project SafeCare for Child Neglect
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma
- Enrollment
- 2,175
- Locations
- 6
- Primary Endpoint
- Child welfare system recidivism
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The study is a field trial comparing the SafeCare family preservation model to a comparable usual care model for parents in child welfare. The study also compares two levels of service quality control.
Detailed Description
The study is a cluster-randomized field trial of the SafeCare(SC) home-based family preservation model for families in the child welfare system. The trial is conducted in collaboration with the state child welfare agency and their contracted in-home service system. The service system is regionalized and provides in home services to families referred by child welfare. Regions of the state are assigned by the study to either the SC model or to services as usual. Provider teams, nested within regions, are assigned to either a monitored or unmonitored model implementation quality control condition. The aims of the project are to test client level child welfare reentry outcomes between SC and standard conditions, across the two implementation and quality control conditions.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Factorial
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 14 Years to 75 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Parents in the child welfare system for neglect with or without physical abuse
Exclusion Criteria
- •Parents in the child welfare system for sexual abuse
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Child welfare system recidivism
Time Frame: Up to 2766 days
Follow-up for recidivism reports to child welfare, captured from administrative data maintained by the state child welfare system
Secondary Outcomes
- Child Abuse Potential Inventory(Approximately 180 days and 365 days)
- Family Resources Scale(Approximately 180 and 365 days)
- Beck Depression Inventory(Approximately 180 and 365 days)
- Social Provisions Scale(Approximately 180 and 356 days)
- Diagnostic Interview Schedule--Drug and Alcohol Disorders Module(Approximately 180 and 365 days)